About Firestorm:

Firestorm® Solutions, a division of Novume Solutions (NASDAQ: NVMM), is a leading crisis and risk management firm and America’s CRISIS COACH®. Since 2005, Firestorm has assisted clients in transforming crisis into value by responding to some of the largest and most complex crisis events as well as combining best-practice consulting with proven crisis management expertise. Firestorm empowers clients to manage crisis and risk through assessments, audits, program development, insurance partnerships, training and advisory services using the PREDICT.PLAN.PERFORM.® methodology.

Firestorm provided crisis management and crisis communications services to Virginia Tech after the shootings and continues to provide services to keep tens of thousands of employees, customers and students safer.

Firestorm® is a national leader in crisis/consequence management, communications, emergency response and business continuity consulting services. Firestorm utilizes the tremendous knowledge acquired by its founders, staff and Expert Council, while managing some of this nation’s worst crises, to provide critical decision support to its clients.

The Firestorm mission is to build strong Disaster Ready People and Disaster Ready Businesses. Firestorm assists organizations in developing a culture of preparedness, so they are ready to respond when disaster strikes. The Firestorm PREDICT.PLAN.PERFORM.® methodology, along with an expert staff allow client organizations to implement comprehensive “preparedness” programs, which aligns with, or exceed, industry best practices.

The three Firestorm founders have more than 100 years of combined experience handling and managing crises. They gained this experience as C-level officers/directors of companies, and as advisors to boards and management teams. They have extensive experience with both public and private companies.

Firestorm serves its network of clients through offices in seventeen locations across the United States, with its corporate headquarters in Atlanta. The Firestorm team is built with senior staff accustomed to working with Board and C-Suite executives in Fortune 500 companies. They include attorneys, engineers, architects, accountants, and educators, as well as risk management, crisis management, and business continuity professionals. The team combines industry expertise with actual hands-on management experience, thereby enabling them to understand organizational challenges and design solutions.

Firestorm also has an Expert Council™ made up of more than one hundred individuals with world renowned knowledge in their fields. Firestorm leverages their unparalleled expertise in the delivery of services to its clients, by integrating their thought leadership into the methodologies and approaches utilized on all projects.

Together, Firestorm founders, staff and Expert Council bring a level of credibility and skill to the preparedness and crisis response process which cannot be matched by any other consulting firm.

Firestorm is available to clients, 24 x 7, to plan for and/or mitigate the impacts of any crisis or disaster.

Firestorm is also the Nation’s Leading Expert In School Violence Prevention, Planning, and Training

SCHOOL PREPAREDNESS – simplifying Preparedness

Every member of the school community wants to know that students, faculty and staff will be safe at your school. While most schools have thought about natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes, and human-induced threats, such as school violence and sexual abuse, new threats appear each year. With the rise in social media threats and cyber bullying and sexting, as well as new forms of communicable illness, it is necessary that schools continually update their plans.

Firestorm Solutions is a national leader in crisis management consulting and crisis management response. Firestorm was on scene at Virginia Tech, and is currently engaged to help keep hundreds of schools and tens of thousands of students safer.

The Firestorm School Workplace Violence Prevention Team includes Firestorm principals who have significant experience developing emergency response, crisis management, security and workplace violence plans for K-12 (public and private) as well as higher education institutions throughout the country. They have responded to: school shootings, sex abuse, suicides, bullying, sexual harassment, cyber-bullying, hazing, employee-on-employee and student-on-student violence, domestic violence spilling over into the school setting, and child pornography.

Firestorm principals and Expert Council members include some of the most knowledgeable individuals in the country on the topic of school and workplace violence, forensic and clinical psychology, threat assessment, security, safety and trauma. Their experience is hands-on, and the lessons-learned that are shared are based on real life experiences handled by these experts. They include team members who led or participated in the response at Littleton, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Columbine, Platte Canyon, Youth With A Mission, Deer Creek, Beslan. They all stand ready to assist at a moment’s notice.

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Firestorm founders Harry Rhulen, Suzy Loughlin and Jim Satterfield wrote Disaster Ready People for a Disaster Ready America specifically to address the need for crisis and disaster preparedness at home, and the book has become a cornerstone of many corporate preparedness programs.

INFORMATION

Firestorm® Solutions is a division of Novume™ Solutions. Since 2005, Firestorm has assisted clients by responding to some of the largest and most complex critical incidents. The Firestorm team has over 100 years of combined experience at the highest level of security and law enforcement. Our highly-trained team is an industry leader in providing custom safety and security solutions. Firestorm empowers its clients to manage security risks through assessments, audits, program development, training and advisory services using our PREDICT.PLAN.PERFORM.® methodology.

HEADQUARTERS

In a Crisis now? Call us: (800) 321-2219

“What should we do now?” “What should we say?”

How you answer the question “What should we do now?” can have far reaching implications for your company or organization. Preparedness and Resiliency are key brand attributes for every company. Crises come as surprises. Control of events and message are lost. Impacts accelerate. Public scrutiny intensifies.

Are you ready? How do you know? Are you sure?

Most executives are trained to make decisions based upon information, data, and policy.

In a crisis,

Information is generally wrong

Data is not available

Policies do not exist

Command & control is lost

Brand & reputation are under attack

Leadership is involved and engaged personally

Impacts are disproportional

Events are escalating

Speed is quality or even survival

You are the center of media focus

The above dynamics work aggressively against traditional empirical management decision processes. Decisions must be made quickly with limited and often incorrect information.

A crisis is not business as usual. A crisis is business as unusual.

Crises have a short duration, but have consequences that can determine the viability of a business or organization for years to come. If you are explaining, you are losing.

Crises have impacts – for good and bad. Every crisis starts with a combination of opportunity and danger. Where the risk/crisis conundrum balances depends upon your initial critical decisions, your crisis communications, your monitoring of events, and your adjustments made to strategy and actions as events develop. Your company’s reputation, brand, legacy, and profitability hang in the balance in a crisis. Crises are personal. Every crisis is a human crisis. It is your company. It is your people. It is your brand. It is your reputation. It is your career. Doing the wrong thing or doing nothing can create a point of no return.

We Help Clients Take Control of Crisis

In crisis, we assist senior management in developing or implementing a Crisis Management Plan. We provide advice and insight to help managers make crucial decisions, and communication experts to assist with social media communications and public relations. Our Senior Team is ready to help your senior team.

Don’t Let Your First Response Become Your Second Crisis

As the leading crisis management company, our founders, executives, principals, and Executive Council are available to assist as needed. We put together the right team for you.

Call Us Today for a free assessment and discover how we can help in calm and in crisis. (800) 321-2219

Firestorm® Solutions, a division of Novume Solutions (NASDAQ: NVMM), is a leading crisis and risk management firm and America’s CRISIS COACH®. Since 2005, Firestorm has assisted clients in transforming crisis into value by responding to some of the largest and most complex crisis events as well as combining best-practice consulting with proven crisis management expertise. Firestorm empowers clients to manage crisis and risk through assessments, audits, program development, insurance partnerships, training and advisory services using the PREDICT.PLAN.PERFORM.® methodology.